They've arrested boys for sending GET requests; they've asked mothers to pay billions of damage because their children had downloaded mp3s from torrents; but now if an "agent" hacks the site of a competitor company or downloads all pirated books available on the net it's ok, cool even - because if they don't do it, someone worse than them will do it anyway...

To me, this speaks of how AI companies are unable (or have little interest) to properly insulate their software from the Internet, and in particular from the sites of people who are unwilling to participate in their war games.

Especially when doing it requires zero effort from the programmer.

Remember when Google removed from Chrome the 60 lines of code implementing the FTP protocol because it was a security liability?

Binance failed to implement programs to prevent or report suspicious transactions — including those tied to Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Al Qaeda, and ISIS

In order to illustrate the filth that gravitates around crypto, there's no need to conjure these exotic boogeymen, when you have local actors like the president and his buddies. Also, Al Qaeda affiliates are good now, as they used to be in the 80s.

This hurts many subpopulations of minors, ranging from LGBTQ teens who will be isolated from communities that can help them navigate their identities to minors on the autism spectrum who can express themselves better online than they can in face-to-face conversations.

I call bulllshit on this. Children do not have the maturity that is required for unfiltered access to the adult world, let alone for using a service designed around exploiting human fragilities for commercial exploitation. Sensitive kids, if anything, have a much higher chance of getting hurt by either the addictive mechanism of the service itself or by weirdos they can encounter online than the chance of meeting some "community" that can help them better than their parents or a specialist could. They'll have plenty of time for navigating after their brain has formed.

Who knows, these days; it might just happen that the code you push there ends up being used to train an AI that could fire you (if you're American) or kill you (if you are from elsewhere). Not being evil is all good, but those sweet Pentagon contracts...

What is this "modern" web that requires new features, not security updates, every two weeks? Because certainly it's not users.
Nowadays the word "modern" has become a red flag for a company pushing their development or business models over their users' needs or desires.

I can live with that.

An AI agent is totally going to clean his ass when he's no longer able to do it himself.

It's the law that is absurd, though. Italy's "piracy shield" forces all service providers (including DNS and VPN vendors) to block any IP address or domain name that they put on a blacklist, within 30 minutes from publication. Only Italy's equivalent of the MPAA are allowed to add to that list: you can't use the system to protect your own copyrighted works, only the media oligarchs can. There is no appeal procedure if you are unjustly blocked.

Last year "piracy shield" disabled Google Drive in the whole country for a day because someone had shared links to watch football matches on a Google Docs document.

That said, it's not lost on me that Cloudflare expect themselves to be above the law, and that they don't want anyone to rule the internet because they want to be the gatekeepers themselves.

C++ and Rust are very different languages. Rust's safety requires you to use different abstractions and public interfaces compared to C++, even if only to wrap everything into "unsafe" sections. And Win32 APIs are in C, not even C++. This is not going to be a "refactor", but a rewrite, an operation that historically has often gone wrong in software engineering. And it will be done by AI and in a management-imposed hurry...
My prediction: the old pieces of Windows that somehow still work will become just like Microsoft Teams.

You forgot to end with "thank you for your attention to this matter".

Nothing to see here, move on. And I'm not even a Ruby fan.

Hyperloops don't exist and will never exist, because they're infeasible. They're all scams. Stop platforming their proponents.